Amicombe Hill, also known as the Devil's Dome,
at www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2016 is a hill in North

Dartmoor Dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon, South West England. The moorland and surrounding land has been protected by National Park status since 1951. Dartmoor National Park covers . The granite that forms the uplands dates from the Carb ...

in the southwest English county of

Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west ...

. At 584 metres high, it is the sixth highest peak in Devon and Dartmoor. This bleak and remote hill lies within the

military training area A military training area, training area (Australia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom) or training centre (Canada) is land set aside specifically to enable military forces to train and exercise for combat. Training areas are usually out of bounds ...

on Dartmoor and is not accessible to the public except at certain times. It forms an elongated, hooked ridge between the

West Okement River The West Okement is a river in north Dartmoor in Devon in south-west England. It rises at West Okement Head near Cranmere Pool and flows in a generally NW direction past Black-a-Tor Copse and into Meldon Reservoir. After exiting the reservoir i ...

to the east and Rattle Brook to the west and southwest.

Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...

''Landranger'' Map No. 191, 1:50,000 series The actual summit is the rock tor by the flagpole. Near the summit of the hill is Kitty Tor. On the steep eastern hillside are further prominent rocky outcrops, including a

logan rock The Logan Rock (, meaning ''balanced stone'') near the village of Treen in Cornwall, United Kingdom, is an example of a logan or rocking stone. Although it weighs some 80 tons, it was dislodged in 1824 by a group of British seamen, intent on ...

. To the west are the remains of Bleak House and other ruins. Great Links Tor (586m) lies around 1.5 km to the west-southwest and Dartmoor's highest peak,

High Willhays High Willhays ( , ), or according to some authorities High Willes, is the highest point on Dartmoor, Devon, at above sea level,Dartmoor National Park Authority, General Information: Dartmoor Factsheet', 2004, p. 1 and the highest point in ...

(621m), lies about 2 km northeast.

References

{{Reflist Hills of Devon